Infinity Saga dusting after
Thanos acquired all six
Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers|alt=Doctor Strange dusting away after Thanos collected all of the Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers, wiping out half of all living life in the universe. In
Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos obtains the six
Infinity Stones and places them within a
Gauntlet built by
Eitri, so that he can snap his fingers and eliminate half of all life in the universe, which he believes will bring a balance that will prevent greater catastrophes from fighting over resources. The Blip occurs at the end of the film in
Wakanda, where numerous characters are blipped, including Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker, Stephen Strange, T'Challa, Sam Wilson, Peter Quill, Groot, Drax, and Mantis. The
Russo brothers also revealed that, despite not appearing in
Infinity War, Betty Ross and Sif were blipped as well. The Blip is shown by characters slowly turning into dust and disappearing. In a mid-credits scene in
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Hank Pym, Hope van Dyne, and Janet van Dyne are blipped, leaving Scott Lang stranded in the Quantum Realm. In a subsequent post-credits scene, a nationwide broadcast of the
Emergency Alert System is shown on a television in Lang's house. In a post-credits scene of
Captain Marvel (2019), the
Avengers are surveying reports of worldwide population losses at the
Avengers Compound, when Carol Danvers abruptly appears, having received a distress signal from Fury that he sent through a pager before he blipped. When asked how the
sixth season of
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., set one year after the events of the
fifth season and
Infinity War, would connect to the then-upcoming
Avengers: Endgame,
Marvel Television head
Jeph Loeb suggested in March 2019 that the one-year time jump between the previous season of the series and this one was part of the series's tie-in to that film. After
Endgame was released in April, the showrunners and Loeb revealed that the series would not directly depict or reference the Blip for several reasons. They began production on the season without knowing all of
Endgame plot or how
Far From Home would be depicting a post-
Endgame MCU. They were also unsure when the season would be released in relation to
Endgame and how much they would be allowed to reveal if they had begun airing before the film was released. They wanted to focus on telling their own story rather than be "shackled too much to the universe-changing events from the films". While acknowledging that this meant the series seemingly no longer lined up with the films' timeline, producer
Jed Whedon stated that the writers had an explanation for this that made sense to them even though they did not plan to "burden the audience" with it. A line referencing the Blip and how the Quantum Realm could be used to avoid it was filmed for the
series finale but was ultimately cut from the aired episode. In
Avengers: Endgame, Clint Barton's family, Erik Selvig, Shuri, and Jane Foster are confirmed to have been blipped. In the Avengers Compound, Sharon Carter and Scott Lang are also listed as blipped, though Carter went rogue to establish her identity as the Power Broker in
Madripoor and Lang was unaccounted for due to being trapped in the Quantum Realm. Some of the surviving heroes travel to
the planet where Thanos has gone to attempt to recover the Infinity Stones and undo the Blip, only to learn that Thanos had destroyed the Stones to ensure that his work could not be undone. Five years later, the effects of the disappearances are explored, with many characters having experiences resulting from the event. For example, Barton is distraught at the loss of his family and takes on a new identity as Ronin, travelling the world to massacre organized crime figures involved in the drug trade and child trafficking. Rogers leads a support group in New York City for those dealing with the loss of loved ones in the Blip. Thor, who blames himself for failing to kill Thanos before the initial snap, becomes an out-of-shape alcoholic.
Urban decay is apparent in cities such as New York City and San Francisco. Danvers tells the Avengers that the chaos happening on Earth is also occurring on other planets. In the meantime, Scott Lang is freed from the Quantum Realm, having only experienced five hours instead of years. He comes across a memorial park listing names of the vanished, including himself, then reunites with his daughter Cassie, who had been a young girl when he last saw her and is now a teenager. Lang informs the remaining Avengers and allies about his discovery: the Quantum Realm can allow time travel. While they soon determine that the nature of time travel means that they cannot simply go back in time and stop Thanos from either causing the Blip or destroying the Stones in the first place, they are able to use
Pym Particles to travel through the Quantum Realm to retrieve the Infinity Stones from alternate timelines in the past. Upon returning to the present, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Rocket develop a Gauntlet composed of Stark's nanotech that is capable of harnessing the power of the Stones. Due to the powerful emission of gamma radiation resulting from the Stones' use, Banner volunteers to wear the Gauntlet and successfully restores the blipped victims in the condition they had vanished. The Avengers are then attacked by an alternate version of Thanos who intends to destroy and recreate the universe. A final battle ensues and Stark ultimately wins the battle by using the Stones to destroy Thanos and his army, at the cost of his own life. Following a funeral honoring Stark's sacrifice, Rogers travels back in time to return the Stones to their original time periods. In
Spider-Man: Far From Home, the Blip is discussed in a school news broadcast at the beginning of the film, which is the first instance in any medium of the name. The broadcast shows
Midtown School of Science and Technology band members reappearing in the middle of a basketball game. The film reveals that several more characters had been blipped and restored, including Peter's aunt May Parker and his classmates Ned Leeds, MJ, Betty Brant, and Flash Thompson. Parker's teacher Roger Harrington complains that his wife had pretended to have been blipped in order to leave him. As part of a
viral marketing campaign to promote the home media release of
Far From Home, a real version of the fictional
TheDailyBugle.net website was created that featured testimonials from supposed victims of the Blip, including one complaining that they disappeared in a dangerous situation and were seriously injured when they reappeared. This contradicted a statement by Feige saying that anyone in such a situation would have reappeared safely. Several days after this was pointed out, the website was updated to say this story was faked for an insurance claim.
Multiverse Saga Phase Four At the beginning of the fourth episode of
WandaVision, "
We Interrupt This Program", Monica Rambeau is shown returning from being blipped in a hospital room, discovering chaos in the hallways as other people are un-blipped causing the hospital to be overcrowded, and learning that her mother, Maria Rambeau, had died while she was gone. In the same episode, when characters outside the
Westview hex first see
Vision onscreen, three weeks after everyone returned, Darcy Lewis asks Jimmy Woo and other colleagues to confirm that "he's dead, right? Not blipped. Dead". In a flashback in the eighth episode, "
Previously On", Wanda Maximoff goes to the
S.W.O.R.D. headquarters in
Florida and tells them that after "she came back", Vision's body was gone. The large screen televisions in the headquarters show the news that the Blip happened and that people around the world are being reunited with their loved ones. The writers and producers had many conversations about how to portray people returning from the Blip, and decided to set the sequence in a hospital as an interesting place to depict the scariness and confusion of the event from Monica's perspective. This is different from the portrayal of the Blip in
Far From Home, which had a more comedic tone, and Schaeffer explained that Marvel was happy for the series' tone to be different as long as the visuals of the sequence matched with those seen in
Far From Home. In
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, set six months after
Endgame, the Blip is referenced as having created chaos around the world. Millions of people who were displaced by the Blip came under the authority of the
Global Repatriation Council, with a substantial number of people living as refugees awaiting
repatriation to their home countries. The event caused violent revolutions throughout the world by organizations such as the
Flag Smashers, who felt that life was better during the Blip and engage in terrorist activities to promote an
anarchist society. Joaquin Torres tells Sam Wilson that life was not easy during the five year period of the Blip. A couple thanks Wilson for helping restore their family, unaware that Wilson had been blipped also. Wilson apologizes to Sharon Carter for not getting in touch with her after he was restored to life. The
Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit displayed screens relating to the Blip and the events of
Infinity War and
Endgame. One screen was titled the "Vanished" with a long list of names of people who disappeared. Another screen was titled "The Blip". On Sharon Carter surviving the Blip and becoming the Power Broker, series director
Kari Skogland said that Carter "had to survive out there on her own during the Blip and being on the run without family—and look at what she built and where she went. She's clever, and that's what I love about it most." The Blip is not shown to occur in the alternate universes depicted in episodes of the animated series
What If...? first season. In
the second episode, T'Challa convinces Thanos to abandon his plans of erasing half of life in the universe, while in
the fifth episode Thanos arrives on Earth, having acquired five of the Infinity Stones, but is infected by the quantum virus and transformed into a
zombie before he can acquire the final Stone. In
the eighth episode, Thanos arrives on Earth to retrieve the
Mind Stone after collecting the other Infinity Stones but is swiftly killed by
Ultron, who takes the Stones for himself and sets about to annihilate all life in the
multiverse. In
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), the Blip is discussed, and fliers can be seen in San Francisco regarding a hotline for sufferers of "post-Blip anxiety". In
Eternals (2021), Ajak reveals that the Blip delayed the onslaught of the
Emergence for five years, as it halved the Earth's population from the necessary level needed for it to occur. An advertisement for the Global Repatriation Council is also featured in the film. In
Hawkeye, set in December 2024, the phrase "Thanos was right" is seen on a coffee mug and in graffiti throughout New York City, such as in the men's bathroom of a
Broadway theater. The Blip is mentioned by Kate Bishop when she deduces that Clint Barton was the
Ronin. It is also shown that Yelena Belova was blipped and that Maya Lopez and her father, William, survived the Blip, only for William to later die in an attack facilitated by his employer, Wilson Fisk, who also survived the Blip. The series's fifth episode, "
Ronin", was the first MCU media to show the Blip from the perspective of a person being blipped, with Belova seeming to almost instantly disintegrate and then reappear, with the room around her changing in appearance to signify the passage of five years. In
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), it is revealed that Wong replaced Stephen Strange as the Sorcerer Supreme due to Strange's disappearance during the Blip. In a mid-credits scene, a bartender explains to a universe-displaced
Eddie Brock how his family was among the victims of the Blip. Although the Blip is never mentioned in
Moon Knight (2022), the issue date on Marc Spector's passport is visibly shown to be December 14, 2018, which is a post-Blip date, indicating that he survived. In addition, a Global Repatriation Council banner is seen on the side of a bus in
the second episode. In
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), it is revealed that Strange's former girlfriend Dr. Christine Palmer survived the Blip and, during that time, found love with another man, Charlie, whom she marries. During the wedding, Strange also learns that his former co-worker Dr. Nicodemus West was blipped, and when he returned five years later, he was devastated to discover that his brother and cats had died during his absence. This compels West to ask Strange if there was any way that Thanos could have been defeated without the Blip occurring, prompting Strange to confirm that there was no other way. In the
first episode of
Ms. Marvel (2022), a memorial wall at the first
AvengerCon showcased various notes from people thanking the Avengers for their role in bringing back family members, including pictures of families reunited. In
the first episode of
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Bruce Banner takes his cousin
Jennifer Walters to his beach house/lab in Mexico that was built by Banner and Stark and explains to Walters that it's where he spent the five year period of the Blip, fixing himself and merging the Hulk/Banner personas. In
the second episode, Walters' mother, Elaine, reminds the family that Banner was responsible for the undoing of the Blip and that he had saved everyone with a snap of his finger. In
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), it is revealed that Nakia and her son Toussaint left Wakanda immediately following the Blip, and Ramonda served as
queen regnant of Wakanda during the subsequent five years.
Phase Five In
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), it is revealed that Hope van Dyne founded the
Pym van Dyne Foundation to help the world using Pym Particles in the aftermath of the Blip, by providing reforestation and other humanitarian efforts. Cassie Lang also tried to assist with activism in helping a settlement of people who had lost their homes due to displacement following the Blip. Scott Lang also reminds the Pym family that they would have remained blipped had he not returned from the Quantum Realm. In
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Quill admits that he was partially responsible for half of the universe getting destroyed recalling the events of
Infinity War and how he got angry after learning about Gamora's death. In
Secret Invasion (2023), Fury suffers from
post-traumatic stress due to his Blip-caused disintegration, leaving him more vulnerable. It is revealed that
S.A.B.E.R. was made in the aftermath of
Infinity War to protect Earth from other extraterrestrial threats. Fury learns that Talos, having survived the Blip, secretly brought a million refugee
Skrulls to Earth while the blipped population was gone. In
The Marvels (2023), Monica Rambeau reveals to
Kamala Khan and Carol Danvers that after she returned from being blipped she was alone. In a flashback, Danvers acknowledges to Monica's mother, Maria, that Monica blipped. This flashback happened during the five-year period in between the events of
Endgame and was the first time the word was used in the timeline. It is also revealed that Goose survived the Blip. == Differences from the comics ==